Data-sharing service provider Mashery raises $2M, as more companies look to share data

Data-sharing service provider Mashery raises $2M, as more companies look to share data

Mashery, to put it simply, helps companies to more easily share their data with outside developers. By making this data more accessible, a company can let other developers use their own creativity to put the information to work.

This technology, called application programming interfaces (or APIs),… Continue Reading

Roundup: FCC turns down Skype appeal, PG&E asks for more renewables, and more

Roundup: FCC turns down Skype appeal, PG&E asks for more renewables, and more

FCC chair rejects opening existing wireless networks — A petition from Skype failed to convince FCC chairman Kevin Martin to force wireless carriers to open up their existing networks to outside devices and software, leaving the newly-auctioned 700Mhz airwaves as the only network opened by… Continue Reading

Mashery, a mashup company, raises less than $5M

Mashery, a mashup company, raises less than $5M

San Francisco start-up Mashery has raised another round of capital to help Web companies open their platforms so that developers can build applications on top of them.

By releasing an API, or Application Programming Interface, a company can allow “mashups” of its data, and gain… Continue Reading

MySpace founders shortchanged, Yahoo’s binge over, Timebridge, Mashery, FON, Workday

MySpace founders shortchanged, Yahoo’s binge over, Timebridge, Mashery, FON, Workday

The round-up of crucial stuff in Silicon Valley:

Did MySpace’s Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson get shortchanged? — VentureBeat has heard that MySpace, the biggest success of the Web 2.0 wave so far, in terms of users, wasn’t such a great a hit for the co-founders. Word… Continue Reading